通菜街 Tung Choi St.: 澳洲牛奶公司 Australia Dairy Company

About one month ago I got an email forward regarding an amazing egg sandwich made by a restaurant by the name of Australia Dairy Company. I followed the link which brought me to a review of the restaurant, featuring this picture:

photo is courtesy tastytreats

The eggs looked so fluffy, so moist, so perfect. The email forwarder only lamented that she wasn't closer to Hong Kong, and so relegated herself to drooling on her keyboard until the day she'd get that chance.

As for myself, the artistry showcased at tastytreats was so tastefully blogged (pun intended), that it inspired me to start up my own food blog; and so I dug out the dusty SLR camera from the back corner of my closet and began bringing it wherever my tastebuds went. Thus Tung Choi St. was born. These famous scrambled eggs at Australia Dairy Company (which by the way has a facebook group of 6,220 members dedicated to it!) was a food I knew I had to hit up eventually, in honor of the food and the blog that inspired Tung Choi St. My culinary experience at Australia Dairy Company lived up to the significance of my visit...

The place was packed!

As is customary in Hong Kong, we had to share our table with others. Not a single seat in the restaurant was unoccupied. Waiters ran around frantically as people without seats stood in between tables. But service was quick, and efficient, as is typical in Hong Kong.

For starters, my friend and I had this staple cha chaan teng option:

牛肉通粉 beef macaroni soup

Compared to most macaroni soups in Hong Kong, this one tops the list for best flavored soup, which supports perfectly the soft macaroni and tasty beef strips.

Then came the egg sandwich...(my photo didn't come out as attractively as tastytreats'). My friend had the honors of having the first bite, and immediately her reaction was an orgasmic "woahhh-hoahhh!" Creamy, softly seasoned with the perfect amount of salt, and perhaps secret ingredients, combined with care and perhaps a secret process we'll never know of, between two of the softest slices of bread you'll ever eat, truly a treat.

With killer eggs like these, think of all the traditional dishes you could spruce up!

公司三文治 Club Sandwich
Expats are seldom impressed with club sandwiches in Hong Kong because they're not as hearty and crispy as they're made in the US (where's the bacon?!), plus they typically put eggs in them? Sounds weird to most foreigners. But it's more than excusable with these eggs. I wouldn't even have recognized this as a club sandwich if they didn't name it so, but it's downright good. Served in between three layers of toasted bread are the magical eggs as well as ham, cheese, pickles, and an interesting and tasty tomato and pork combination.